interruption: chapeau

Bounce pattern requested by the recipient.

Kool-aid dyed wool yarn, can't remember what brand exactly.

Size 10 needles, I think.

Mods: I didn't like the square stockinette decrease, so I did a brioche decrease (more or less): 3 stitches before marked stitch, knit together 2 stitches & a YO. Move stitch back to left needle, and pass marked stitch & its YO over the worked stitch. Move back to right stitch. I did this 4 times per round, every other round, until it got down to around 8-10 stitches, then I fed the yarn through.

If I were to knit this again, I would find a way to knit it in the round. I would also make it smaller. It's pretty big.






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AW, 4/5/2003:


AW:


JC, 1/3/2007: "Destruction of card due to my dog, Scout. Makes it more valuable, n'est pas?"


MEB: "E especially enjoys the hair designing!"


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Group postcard, 2004: "Bobcats rule! You are a bobcat!"--PMcCMcS "Beam." --DCF "Who cares?!! Oh, wait a sec..." --Chef H. "You're so juris-prudent." --SWT


SJP, 2006: "This bird's head belongs in your apartment! Though not in a violent way."


PMcCMcS, 01/20/01 [this date does not seem accurate] [the picture on the card is made out of cloth glued onto it]: "Please keep an eye out for a thermometer that goes above 120 degrees. If I'm going to bitch, I'm going to bitch accurately. ... I've told everyone, 'Mam kiema baoda tumde be Ghana ... a na n waka yesa!' ... To which the typical response is 'Yaa Soma!' ... Laafi bala. So, what's new here? Well, I have some swollen, hot, and extraordinarily itchy bug bites: a mystery roommate. ... Guess who was weirdly staring into my screen door, just now? Mazoo! ... When I first got back, he was peering all over the place, and I figured out that he was looking for you. 'Mam kiema-paga kulame,' I told him. 'My older sibling-woman went home.' To which, in typical Mazoo fashion, Mazoo nodded, blank-faced."

EDD, 02/16/2005: [Charmingly, mostly illegible.]



CMcS, 2/2006: "The Cranes are already here. We can go see!"


AAF, 12/05:


JC, 12/2004:


CMcS, 2/10/2006:


EEB, 1/17/2006:


EEB:

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SWT:


SWT: "I'm excited to see you and your pink pants in a month."


PMcCMcS 10/15/200: [Hot pink on the other side, with silver writing] "Now you can expect all sorts of headache-inducing, chromatically mismatched mail ... can you read this in the dark? Can you read it in a shark? Can you read it with Plutarch?"



MEB & EEB, 2006?:

KJB, 10/30/04:


MH, 12/20/2002. This card was hard to scan because it has a hard plastic pink stuck to the top with adhesive. It came that way. At the bottom, it says, "Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families. Charles Dickens (1812-1870)." : "(It's the one I wanted to get you in the summer, but I don't recall if you got one, anyhow, it's smelly juniper.)"


SWT, 3-5-2002: "Also! Don't forget to pack the silk long johns! ... You're finito! Capisco? ... Till Scandinavia!"


HMF, 12/10/02: "I'm taking a vacation from my vacationfor a few weeks, then I'm afraid it will really be time to stop goofing around and go to work."


JC, QOP, 1/2003:


HMF, 2/22/2003: "We got two feet of snow and now it's warm and raining and we have flood warnings."

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I would like to take this opportunity to say that I take full responsibility for any typos that appear to be attributed to other people in these postcards.

Also: the post office's new way of stamping mail sucks. The date and place of mailing is not legible. What's the point? Sheesh.

SWT:

HMF, 2004 [this is purple in real life]:

EEB, 4/16/05:


A law firm ad, pre-market crash: "The [law firm] Summer Associate Program: Glamorous work, lavish meals, theatre tickets. Your basic deal with the devil."


HMF: "I bought my first 21g of glitter today."


LT, 2/2/05:


LT, 3/17/05:


DF: "Last night was B's bachelor party. I won poker money from drunk people. ... This skimboard was constructed from wood taken off the hands of the folk at the Seattle ReStore, which is of course the awesome ancillary project of Habitat for Humanity. It has excellent lightweight and compact size for getting to the beach, with the smoothest, most frictionless skim of any board yet constructed by Eladrin Constructs!"


PAK: "!, P"


AAF, 12/17/04: The best thing about this card is that A crossed out the "season's greetings" that came prewritten on it and wrote "Merry Christmas!" underneath. The second best thing is that she says she's "sorry that grad school is flying past."

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One binder done.

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HMF, 11/1/06: "I hope this gets to you in time for election day. I voted absentee here in South Dakota and they had the stickers available when I picked up my ballot at the courthouse. I always know more about the issues here than in DC. I'm roasting pumpkin seeds and waiting for bread to rise."


AAF, 3/6/97: "Just wait to see my hair - ultra perky."


RLY, 9/23/99: "Dearest Anne, This is a precursor for things to come. Are the Annapolis Bars open on Monday?!?"





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RLY, 10/15/98: "How are your sweaters?"


CMcS & JMcC, 2/19/00: "Gramma is wel. I am well. So there you have it!"


EDD, 10/4/00: "Happy 22nd birthday (you're as old as me, for now)."


The T&R Train, 11/26/06: "After desayuno we'll climb the biggest pyramid in the world, bigger at the base than even the largest Egyptian pyramids. Now it has a Catholic church perched on top. This is kind of a metaphor for Mexico. ... We've also seen more ads for ANACONDAS!!! and an art exhibit of frogs with huge naughty bits."


SWT: "Hi ANNE WORD UP"


SWT & AW, 12/1/00


TTF: "POSTCARD BY TIMO"


JAMcS, 9/17/90: "I bought this postcard in New York in honor of War & Peace. I wish I was still studying that, as Hegel is a very hard guy to understand."

SPF, 9/25/98: "There is a path around the lake and at lunch time a bizarre assortment of humans patrol the perimeter. A really pained-looking woman running, a couple of goth girls heading towards the water and just now this woman on roller blades stopped at the drinking fountain and is holding up her very small dog so it can drink, weird."


MLB



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